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Open Data Action Plan

Open data is part of the broader NSW Government commitment to open government. This involves public access to open information in a variety of formats. The release of usable and up to date datasets provides benefits that apply across government, to individuals and industry, and contributes to wider social and economic benefits. Open, transparent and accountable government is boosted by the availability of information on how government works and what it does.

NSW Government data is disseminated through Data NSW. This is a central data catalogue which provides links to datasets and data portals across NSW Government.

This Action Plan supports the NSW Government Open Data Policy and is consistent with relevant legislation and policy, and contemporary State, National and international guidance, standards and best practice.

The Action Plan was developed through the NSW Open Data Challenge Workshop, held on 1 December 2015 with users and consumers of open data. The workshop identified 7 initiatives to drive the release of Better, Faster, More open data.

Initiative 1. Data Request Service

Action

Jun 2016

Sep 2016

Dec 2016

Jun 2017

Dec 2017

Develop a data request service so that the public can easily request data to be released or updated

The Data Request Service is available on Data NSW and is supported by a Rolling Release Schedule for open data. The Rolling Release Schedule establishes targets and timeframes for each cluster to improve the openness of their published data and to release new, high value datasets.